RedR UK: Certificate in the Essentials of Humanitarian Practice (credit-rated)
| Date: | Monday, 13 September 2010 |
| Ends: | Friday, 17 September 2010 (5 days) |
| Location: | London |
| External link: | http://www.redr.org.uk/en/What_We_Do/training/C... |
| Added by: | Emma Wilson (RedR UK) |
The Certificate in Essentials of Humanitarian Practice is a stimulating and interactive course, exploring your motivations for working in this rewarding and challenging sector. Practical learning is at its heart, enabling you to develop techniques and approaches that help tackle the dilemmas faced when working on assignment. You will also be equipped with all the essential theory and the latest thinking on humanitarian practice.
Suitable for:
Anyone entering or already working in the humanitarian sector. This course will be of particular interest to staff from humanitarian aid organisations and individuals looking to work in the sector. We welcome people from all professional backgrounds and disciplines.
Course covers:
This course aims to introduce the underlying principles of the humanitarian sector and the realities of working in emergencies.
We examine the humanitarian and relief systems, accountability and international law, needs assessment, mainstreaming gender, culture and security and the impacts and dilemmas of relief work.
Participants engage in a combination of individual and group activities, culminating in an exercise focusing on planning and managing a relief response.
The Certificate in the Essentials of Humanitarian Practice has been credit-rated by Oxford Brookes University and is equivalent to 10 M-level credits. Credits can be transferred to the Masters in Development and Emergency Practice (DEP) at Oxford Brookes or other similar postgraduate qualifications.
Course costs start at £375. For further information on this course or RedR UK's training programme click here (http://www.redr.org.uk/en/What_We_Do/training/UK_programme/). Or if you have any questions please email the training team at training@redr.org.uk